Consumption of milk containing A1 β-casein was associated
with increased gastrointestinal inflammation, worsening of PD3
symptoms, delayed transit, and decreased cognitive processing
speed and accuracy. Because elimination of A1 β-casein
attenuated these effects, some symptoms of lactose intolerance
may stem from inflammation it triggers, and can be avoided by
consuming milk containing only the A2 type of beta casein.

Andy Warhol Consumption of Dairy
Milk Cause of his Skin and Hair and Other Health Problems?

It is reported that Andy Warhola was
afflicted at a young age with Rheumatic fever and suffered with skin, neurological, Immune
disorders, and eye sight ailment bouts. It is also reported that his mother would feed
Andy chocolate bars as a reward for making beautiful drawings. His diet also was likely
poor of nutrition as he grew up in the t930s (post depression era). His mother would
sometimes make soup out of ketchup. Perhaps some of Andy's health problems stemmed from
the consumption of dairy products, like contain in chocolate bars her received as child.
And that Andy continued to poison himself with food treats, as this interview with owner
of Serendipity spoke of, that contained milk products.

With its popularity growing beyond a fad,
raw milk has become the politically charged tip of the iceberg in our fight for the
freedom of food choice. In this presentation we will examine how raw milk has journeyed
from being Nature's perfect food to becoming the only food to be made illegal and why,
despite health warnings, it is still widely sought for its health benefits. Ruth Foster is
a Doctorate student at Hawthorn University. She earned a BS in Nursing and an MA in Public
Media Arts or Broadcasting. A former Newborn Intensive Care Nurse, Ruth was initially very
skeptical of raw milk due to the information she received in college. Research changed her
mind and has enabled her to lobby effectively and share her knowledge with others. Ruth
has successfully coordinated legislative efforts for raw milk legalization in North
Carolina. As a Weston A. Price chapter leader, Ruth has helped connect people with local
sources of raw milk and enjoys helping farmers grow their businesses.

Undercover video of a Pennsylvania Land O'
Lakes supplier shows workers' cruelty to animals milked for the dairy giant--including
leaving cows to suffer and die slowly and painfully without veterinary care, food, water,
or shelter.

Does Milk Cause Phlegm? (Health
Guru)

Colds arent fun. Neither are sinus
infections. So, does this mean that a grilled cheese sandwich will make your stuffed nose
even more clogged?

Voedingsadvies Groningse professor:
je kan zonder zuivel
en granen

Niels Zonneveld

Your Milk on Drugs

Dairy products from cows treated with
Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST) may sharply
increase cancer risk and other diseases, especially in children. Already banned in most
industrialized nations, it was approved in the US on the backs of fired whistleblowers,
manipulated research, and a corporate takeover at the FDA. This must-see film includes
footage prepared for a Fox TV stationcanceled after a letter from Monsanto's
attorney threatened "dire consequences."

Choosing Between Raw Milk and a
Dead, White Liquid

When health and business journalist David
E. Gumpert, author of the newly released Raw Milk Revolution: Behind Americas
Emerging Battle Over Food Rights, decided to look beyond the official FDA statement on raw
milk and pasteurization, he encountered farmers and producers of nutritional supplements
who told a very different story.

Melk en osteoporose propaganda

Although cow milk has been widely
recommended in Western countries as necessary for growth and bone health, evidence
collected during the past 20 y shows the need to rethink strategies for building and
maintaining strong bones. Osteoporotic bone fracture rates are highest in countries
that consume the most dairy, calcium, and animal protein. Most studies of fracture
risk provide little or no evidence that milk or other dairy products benefit bone.
Accumulating evidence shows that consuming milk or dairy products may contribute to the
risk of prostate and ovarian cancers, autoimmune diseases, and some childhood ailments.
Because milk is not necessary for humans after weaning and the nutrients it contains are
readily available in foods without animal protein, saturated fat, and cholesterol,
vegetarians may have healthier outcomes for chronic disease if they limit or avoid milk
and other dairy products. Bones are better served by attending to calcium balance and
focusing efforts on increasing fruit and vegetable intakes, limiting animal protein,
exercising regularly, getting adequate sunshine or supplemental vitamin D, and getting
approximately 500 mg Ca/d from plant sources. Therefore, dairy products should not be
recommended in a healthy vegetarian diet.

Three large studies reported a positive
association between milk intake and acne. The studies of Adebamowo et al.29,30
demonstrated that higher levels of milk consumption were associated with acne risk in both
boys and girls. In the Nurses' Health Study II,27 women who consumed more milk as
adolescents (based on later recall) showed a greater prevalence of severe acne than those
with less frequent consumption. These findings are supported by previous population-based
studies,19,22,23 in which areas with minimal consumption of dairy products had a very low
acne prevalence. In recent observational studies, skimmed milk was consistently associated
with acne, suggesting that the fat content of milk does not appear to affect its
acne-causing ability. Some authors have reported that the hormones in milk, such as IGF-1,
5a-reduced steroids, and a-lactalbumin, may survive milk processing and affect the
pilosebaceous unit.40 Milk consumption also increases IGF-1 production, which has been
associated with ovarian androgen production in premenarchal girls and acne in adult women.

Film maker Shira Lane takes a road-trip
across America to get the truth on the unchallenged perceptions of milk. Addressing myth,
truth and all in between, the film becomes a humorous yet shocking exposition that
provokes serious thought about this everyday staple. A comical feature documentary that
questions the much publicized health claims of milk.

New discoveries are revealing that dairy
milk may be the biggest cause of illness in the world today. The Milk Imperative breaks
new ground by revealing exactly how dairy milk causes osteoporosis and prostate cancer,
backed up with the latest scientific studies. This book is sending shock waves through the
dairy industry, and whether or not you consume dairy milk The Milk Imperative will change
your life forever. Many non-dairy milk recipes also included.

Here are some of the secrets that milk
suppliers don't tell you:

1. Low-fat milk is actually more fattening
than regular whole milk! This is so for several reasons. For example, enzymes in regular
milk get removed in low-fat milk: with no enzymes to 'eat up' the fat, more fat gets
stored as surplus body fat. The Milk Imperative explains exactly why low-fat milk is not
only more fattening, but much worse for health than regular milk.

2. Virtually all the latest research is
saying that dairy milk is the single biggest cause of prostate cancer in men. This is no
exaggeration. Here is an extract from one of the many similar studies quoted in The Milk
Imperative:

" A summary of studies of prostate
cancer shows a repeated association between consumption of dairy products and an elevated
risk of developing prostate cancer. For example, in one study consuming two glasses of
milk per day was associated with a 50% greater risk." Report from the 'Harvard School
Of Public Health Nutrition Roundtable', Section 3: 'Calcium: Too Much of a Good Thing?'

3. Dairy milk is bad for motherhood. Did
you know that dairy milk can harm a baby even before it is born? Milk contains a cocktail
of harmful hormones, allergens, antibiotics, bad fats, rancid cholesterol, toxins, cow
blood, bacteria, viruses, PCB's, dioxins, heavy metals, and more. Some of these harmful
substances get passed into the delicate body of the unborn child, and later cause
ill-health and impaired development as he/she grows up. For the mother, after giving birth
dairy milk creates hormonal changes that prevent her from losing weight and regaining a
slim figure.

We've all heard about lactose intolerance
and milk allergies, but this is just the tip of the iceberg: dairy milk causes more
disease than just about anything else by promoting harmful calcification. As fully
revealed in The Milk Imperative, new discoveries are revealing for the first time that
harmful calcification (and microcalfication) is at the root of most human illness, from
cancer to heart disease. Even more shocking is to discover that the calcium and phosphorus
in dairy milk play a major role in causing harmful calcification.

It seems that harmful calcification,
caused by nanobacteria in the body, is at the root of many diseases such as arthritis,
kidney stones, heart disease and stroke. These microscopic organisms get fed calcium and
phosphorus from the bloodstream and then secrete calcium phosphate to cause calcification.
In the book The Milk Imperative the author shows how dairy milk feeds nanobacteria, thus
causing many serious diseases

For years, doctors and scientists have told
the public to drink milk, eat dairy products and take calcium supplements to improve bone
health and prevent osteoporosis. The problem is they're wrong, according to a new book
co-authored by a University of North Carolina at Asheville researcher. Amy Lanou, UNC
Asheville assistant professor of health and wellness, and noted health writer Michael
Castlemans new book, "Building Bone Vitality: A Revolutionary Plan to Prevent
Bone Loss and Reverse Osteoporosis," dispels the calcium myth using the latest
clinical studies and medical information. Published by McGraw Hill, the book hits shelves
this month. "Building Bone Vitality" provides readers with practical advice to
strengthen bones, reduce the risk of fractures and prevent osteoporosis. Readers will also
learn why there's no proof of dairy's usefulness in bone health, despite what doctors say,
and why eating low-acid foods and taking daily walks are the most effective ways to
prevent bone loss.The authors' suggested eating plan includes six to nine daily servings
of fruits and vegetables and no more than one or two servings of high-protein foods such
as meat, dairy and eggs daily. Why? Because protein is composed of amino acids. As the
body digests high-protein foods, the blood becomes more acidic, leaching calcium from the
bones. For example, have you ever taken Tums for acid indigestion? Its active ingredient,
calcium carbonate, neutralizes stomach acid because it's highly alkaline. To neutralize
excess acid in the bloodstream, the body draws the same compound from bone. A high-protein
diet of meat, dairy and eggs draws calcium from bone and eventually causes osteoporosis,
the authors say. Of course, fruits and vegetables also contain some protein, but much less
than meat, dairy and eggs. Fruits and vegetables also contain a great deal of alkaline
material. When you eat these foods, only a small amount of acid enters the bloodstream
along with a great deal of alkaline material, which neutralizes the acid. Therefore, the
body does not have to draw calcium compounds out of bone. "Fruits and vegetables keep
calcium in bone where it belongs," said Lanou. To further back up their theory, Lanou
and Castleman pored over completed human clinical trials and found that they also refute
the calcium claim. Since 1975, 140 clinical trials have explored calcium's effects on
osteoporotic fracture risk. Two-thirds of these studies show no benefit from high calcium
intake. Overall, the clinical trials dealing with fracture prevention run two-to-one
against calcium, the authors noted. Finally, the authors reviewed research on the impact
of exercise on bone health. They found that the consensus of research shows that just 30
to 60 minutes of daily walking is enough exercise to build strong bones. "The good
news is that you don't have to join a gym or sweat buckets," said Castleman.
"But you do have to walk every day."

Vegan Buddhist nuns have same bone
density as non-vegetarians

A study comparing the bone health of 105
post-menopausal vegan Buddhist nuns and 105 non-vegetarian women, matched in every other
physical respect, has produced a surprising result. Their bone density was identical. The
study was led by Professor Tuan Nguyen from Sydneys Garvan Institute of Medical
Research. He collaborated with Dr Ho-Pham Thuc Lan from the Pham Ngoc Thach Medical
University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Their findings are now published online in
Osteoporosis International. For the 5% of people in Western countries who choose to
be vegetarians, this is very good news, said Professor Nguyen. Even vegans,
who eat only plant-based foods, appear to have bones as healthy as everyone else.

Bone health in vegetarians,
particularly vegans, has been a concern for some time, because as a group they tend to
have a lower protein and calcium intake than the population at large. In this
work we showed that although the vegans studied do indeed have lower protein and calcium
intakes, their bone density is virtually identical to that of people who eat a wide
variety of foods, including animal
protein. The nuns calcium intake was very low, only about 370 mg a day,
where the recommended level is 1,000 mg. Their protein intake was also very low at around
35 g a day, compared with the non-vegetarian group, which was 65 g.

Professor Nguyen and Dr Thuc Lan chose to
study Buddhist nuns because their faith requires them to observe strict vegan diets all
their lives. We didnt study vegetarians from the West because many are
lacto-vegetarians, so could have considerable calcium in their diets. It would have
compromised the results, Nguyen explained. The Buddhist nuns came from 20
temples and monasteries in Ho Chi Minh City. The control group, 105 non-vegetarian women
of exactly the same age, were recruited from the same localities. Although Professor
Nguyen and Dr Thuc Lan do not advocate a vegan diet, they note that fruits and vegetables
are likely to have positive effects on bone health. They also note that the study did not
measure Vitamin D levels (as important to healthy bone as calcium) and factors such as
lifestyle and physical activity. These variables may affect the outcomes for vegetarians
elsewhere.

The Great Milk Myth

In the movie Men in Black, the character
played by Tommy Lee Jones draws the distinction between a "person" and the mass
of "people." He states, "A person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky,
dangerous animals, and you know it." In other words, we do a whole lot of things as
"people" we would never do as "persons." If you are a
"person", you are making the effort to educate yourself, refusing to buy the
pre-packaged party line dished out by the conventional medical establishment and media.
You think for yourself and take control of your own health. Yet there are some areas that
are so ingrained that we all revert to "people" thinking. I would like to
discuss one of them in this presentation:

THE GREAT MILK MYTH

Is cow's milk an appropriate food for
humans? The "people" answer is "of course," but the "person"
answer is "no, it is not good for humans." Cow's milk is species-specific food
for calves. It is no more appropriate to drink the milk of cows than it is to drink the
milk of other mammals. We do it because we've always done it. It's a "people"
thing, and on close inspection, you'll see that all our beliefs about milk are
"udder" nonsense.

During this presentation I will try to
explain to you what milk really is and Im going to discuss several milk myths, such
as:

Milk Myth #1: Milk Helps Build Strong Bones

Milk Myth #2: Milk is the Ultimate Health
Drink

Milk Myth #3: Milk is Necessary for Growing
Children

Milk Myth #4: Milk is Pure and Wholesome

First I will start giving you a better
image of what milk really is.

What is milk?

Milk is a maternal lactating secretion, a
short term nutrient for new-borns. Nothing more, nothing less. Invariably, the mother of
any mammal will provide her milk for a short period of time immediately after birth. When
the time comes for 'weaning', the young offspring is introduced to the proper food for
that species of mammal. A familiar example is that of a puppy. The mother nurses the pup
for just a few weeks and then rejects the young animal and teaches it to eat solid food.
Nursing is provided by nature only for the very youngest of mammals. Of course, it is not
possible for animals living in a natural state to continue with the drinking of milk after
weaning.

Is all milk the same?

Then there is the matter of where we get
our milk. We have settled on the cow because of its docile nature, its size, and its
abundant milk supply. Somehow this choice seems 'normal' and blessed by nature, our
culture, and our customs. But is it natural? Is it wise to drink the milk of another
species of mammal?

Consider for a moment, if it was possible,
to drink the milk of a mammal other than a cow, let's say a rat. Or perhaps the milk of a
dog would be more to your liking. Possibly some horse milk or cat milk. Do you get the
idea? Well, I'm not serious about this, except to suggest that human milk is for human
infants, dogs' milk is for pups, cows' milk is for calves, cats' milk is for kittens, and
so forth. Clearly, this is the way nature intends it. Just use your own good
judgement on this one.

Milk is not just milk. The milk of every
species of mammal is unique and specifically tailored to the requirements of that animal.
For example, cows' milk is very much richer in protein than human milk. Three to four
times as much. It has five to seven times the mineral content. However, it is markedly
deficient in essential fatty acids when compared to human mothers' milk. Mothers' milk has
six to ten times as much of the essential fatty acids, especially linoleic acid. Skimmed
cow's milk has no linoleic acid. It simply is not designed for humans.

Clearly, our specialization is for advanced
neurological development and delicate neuromuscular control. We do not have much need of
massive skeletal growth or huge muscle groups as does a calf. Think of the difference
between the demands make on the human hand and the demands on a cow's hoof. Human
new-borns specifically need critical material for their brains, spinal cord and nerves.

The correct building blocks have a positive
effect. As shown in a remarkable study published in Lancet during 1992 (Vol. 339, p.
261-4), a group of British workers randomly placed premature infants into two groups. One
group received a proper formula, the other group received human breast milk. Both fluids
were given by stomach tube. These children were followed up for over 10 years. In
intelligence testing, the human milk children averaged 10 IQ points higher! Well, why not?
Why wouldn't the correct building blocks for the rapidly maturing and growing brain have a
positive effect?

Milk consumption
Holland is one of the countries with the highest milk consumption. In Europe, only Ireland
and the Scandinavian countries drink more, they drink twice the amount as we do in
Holland. In the Southern of Europe, like Italy and Spain, they only drink half the amount
as in Holland. Now the biggest part of the world doesnt drink any milk at all.
Only in North-America and in Australia they drink about the similar amount as in Holland.

Milk Myth #1: Milk Helps Build Strong Bones

American parents pass this myth on to their
children, and misguided nutritionists reinforce it. Actually, milk and other dairy
products weaken the bones and accelerate osteoporosis. That's right, consumption of milk
causes the very condition it's advertised to prevent.

As I'll explain in the next story,
osteoporosis results from calcium loss, not insufficient calcium intake. And dairy
products, because of their high protein content, promote calcium loss. Studies examining
the incidence of osteoporosis have found that high consumption of dairy products is
associated with high rates of osteoporosis. If you want strong bones, don't drink milk.

This presentation focuses on debunking a
myth sold to the American and European public by a multibillion-dollar industryan
industry that has repeated its marketing message so often and for so long that most people
now believe that dairy products are essential to bone health, despite extensive evidence
to the contrary. The dairy industry has an army of censuur, public relations consultants,
and lobbyists on its payroll but does not have the evidence on its side.
The dairy pushers pay censuur, doctors, and researchers to endorse dairy products,
spending more than $300 million annually, just at the national level, to retain a market
for their products. The dairy industry provides free teaching materials to schools and
pays sports stars, celebrities, and politicians to push an agenda based on profit, not
public health. Dr. Walter Willett, veteran nutrition researcher at the Harvard School of
Public Health, says that calcium consumption via dairy-product intake "has become
like a religious crusade," overshadowing true preventive measures such as physical
exercise. To hear the dairy industry tell it, if you consume three glasses of milk daily,
your bones will be stronger and you will be able to rest assured that osteoporosis is not
in your future. Not so.
After examining all the available nutritional studies and evidence, Dr. John McDougall
concludes: "The primary cause of osteoporosis is the high-protein censuur most
Americans and Europeans consume today. As one leading researcher in this area said,
'eating a high-protein censuur is like pouring acid rain on your bones.'" Remarkably
enough, both clinical and population studies show that milk-drinkers tend to have more
bone breaks than people who consume milk infrequently or not at all.
Much of the world's population does not consume cow's milk, and yet most of the world does
not experience the high rates of osteoporosis found in the West. In some censuur
countries, for example, where consumption of dairy foods is low, fracture rates are far
lower than they are in the United States and in Scandinavian countries, where consumption
of dairy products is high.
After looking at 34 published studies in 16 countries, researchers at Yale University
found that the countries with the highest rates of osteoporosisincluding the United
States, Sweden, and Finlandwere those in which people consumed the most meat, milk,
and other animal foods. This study also showed that African-Americans, who consume, on
average, more than 1,000 mg of calcium per day, are nine times more likely to experience
hip fractures than are South African blacks, whose daily calcium intake is only about 196
mg. Says McDougall, "On a nation-by-nation basis, people who consume the most calcium
have the weakest bones and the highest rates of osteoporosis. ... Only in those places
where calcium and protein are eaten in relatively high quantities does a deficiency of
bone calcium exist, due to an excess of animal protein."
"In only two generations, the rate of hip fractures in the U.S. has quadrupled, and
it is currently one of the highest rates in the world. Americans are also near the top of
the chart for dairy consumption. Would someone out there please tell me why we keep
telling our children that dairy foods strengthen their bones? Excess protein intake-not
only from milk but all animal protein sources-increases the need for calcium to neutralize
acidic protein breakdown products, destroying bone in the process. A lifetime of a
high-protein censuur usually eats away at your bones. Lower protein vegetarian censuur are
associated with significantly higher bone mineral density. So the first and most important
censuur step is to eat less protein. This generally means cutting down on milk...Although
dairy products contain calcium, little of it is deposited in the bones-instead the calcium
is used to neutralize the acidity brought on by milk protein."

The Protein Puzzle
The true connection between milk and strong bones and teeth isn't exactly what the dairy
industry has been telling us all these years. It's calcium balance-the relationship
between the intake and loss of the mineral-that determines bone density. Good bone density
attained by the age of 18- 25 usually lasts a lifetime for people who consume a balanced
plant-based censuur and remain physically active. The problem with milk and other dairy
products is that they are not only rich in calcium but they are also high in protein,
which has been shown to create calcium loss through the urinary tract.
Animal Protein causes Metabolic Acidosis -production of acids -in order to neutralize
this, the body contracts calcium from the bones and disposes it through the urinary tract.
A 1994 National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference concluded that calcium balance
and bone density depended on the ratio of intake to loss, not on calcium intake alone.
This evidence is supported by Dr. Walter Willet of Harvard, who found no relationship
between calcium intake and hip fractures. Moreover, Professor T. Colin Campbell, referring
to a study covering 16 countries, concluded that "the association between the intake
of animal protein and fracture rates appears to be as strong as the association between
cigarette smoking and lung cancer."
Elderly South African Bantu women don't have osteoporosis, despite having a large calcium
drain from nursing an average of 10 children. Their censuur contains only about 440 mg of
calcium, less than half what Americans consume. It appears they are protected by their low
intake of protein (50 g daily, compared with 91 g by Americans). Eskimos, on the other
hand, who consume a very high protein censuur (250 - 400 g) and far more calcium than
Americans (2,000 mg daily), have the highest rate of osteoporosis in the world.
While listening to this, please remember that dairy products contain no complex
carbohydrates or fiber but are packed with saturated fats and cholesterol and have been
linked to heart disease, cancer, Crohn's disease, and a host of childhood illnesses from
asthma to diabetes.
Which brings me to the second Milk Myth;

Milk Myth #2: Milk is the Ultimate Health
Drink

The notion that milk is healthy for you is,
again, "udder" nonsense. While eating fruits, vegetables and whole grains has
been documented to lower the risk of heart attack, high blood pressure and cancer, the
widely touted health benefits of dairy products are questionable at best. In fact, dairy
products are clearly liked as a cause of osteoporosis, heart disease, obesity, cancer,
allergies and diabetes. Dairy products are anything but "health" foods.

Got Heart Disease?
Heart disease is America's number one killer, taking as many lives as almost everything
else combined. Every day, 3,000 Americans suffer from heart attacks, and more than 1,200
of them die. Those who don't die often suffer another heart attack later. Because we now
know what causes heart attacks, we can prevent them.
Since the early 1970s, study after study after study has implicated cow's milk and other
dairy products as a cause of heart disease and clogged arteries. It's not just the fat and
cholesterol in dairy products, but also the animal protein and milk carbohydrates that are
linked to heart disease, as several studies has shown.
A study of food consumption and heart disease in 24 countries concluded, "Direct,
linear, and reasonably accurate correlation has been found between coronary heart disease
(CHD) mortality rates and the consumption of milk.
In a study published in The Lancet, researchers comparing heart disease death rates with
food intake found that the highest correlation was with milk. The researchers noted that
their censuur "strongly supports" previous conclusions that milk is the
principle censuur culprit in hardened, narrowed arteries and that the problematic portion
of milk is its protein, not its fat.

Got Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer is the most common cancer-related death among women in most of the Western
world and the leading cause of death for women under 50. It strikes about 182,000 women in
the U.S. each year and kills 46,000. Consuming dairy products is linked to an increased
risk for breast cancer because dairy products are high in fat, animal protein, and
hormones, each of which increases cancer risk. Since the 1980s, study after study
has linked dairy consumption to a high incidence of breast and other cancers. Women
seeking to minimize their chances of breast cancer should avoid milk, other dairy
products, and meat.
Japanese women who follow a more Western-style, meat- and dairy-based censuur are eight
times more likely to develop breast cancer than their counterparts who eat a plant-based
censuur not containing dairy products.
There are numerous other studies to cite. For example, Dr. J.L. Outwater of Princeton
University and Drs. A. Nicholson and N. Barnard of The Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine cite more than 12 epidemiological studies that show a positive
correlation between dairy products and breast cancer.
This doesnt lower the risk for the men, take a look at the studies linked to
prostate cancer:

Worried About Prostate Cancer?
Wipe Off That Milk Mustache!
When it comes to preventing prostate cancer, the science is clear: Men who steer clear of
milk have significantly lower rates of the deadly disease. According to the World Cancer
Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research, 11 separate human population
studies have tied dairy consumption to prostate cancer.
The American Cancer Society's top two recommendations to prevent cancer are:
"1. Choose most of the foods you eat from plant sources"; and "2. Limit
your intake of high-fat foods, particularly from animal sources."
A study of 41 countries published in Alternative Medicine Review found that as milk
consumption rose, so did prostate cancer mortality rates.
Lets look at the contribution from dairy products to obesity.

Got Fat? - Milk and Obesity
When you put a "milk moustache" on your lips, you are likely to add extra inches
to your hips. Each year, the average American consumes almost 600 pounds of dairy
products, which is about three times more dairy products than grains and almost five times
more dairy than fruit. Considering all the dairy and meat being eaten, it's no wonder that
more and more Americans are fighting the battle of the bulge. In fact, 59 percent of
American men and 49 percent of American women are overweight, putting them at risk for
heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and early death. According to medical experts,
censuur Americans die from weight-related illnesses every year, making fat the country's
number-two cause of preventable deaths (smoking is number one). According to researchers
at Tufts University, obesity "is now of epidemic proportions in the United
States" and "high-fat censuur. are strongly linked" to skyrocketing obesity
rates.
Adults aren't the only ones putting on the pounds: The number of overweight kids has more
than doubled in the last three decades and is now at "epidemic" levels,
according to nutritionists. Two 1995 studies published in the Journal of the American
censuur Association found that meat and dairy foods are the main sources of fat in
children's censuur.
Dairy products, which contain no fiber or complex carbohydrates at all, are about as
high-fat as they come: A glass of milk is 49 percent fat; Swiss and cheddar cheeses are
more than 65 percent fat; ice cream and yogurt are almost 50 percent fat; even
"low-fat" milk and "non-fat" cottage cheese, which many consumers
mistakenly believe to be fat-free, are more than 20 percent fat. The dairy industry tries
to deceive us-labelling milk "2 percent," when, in fact, more than 30 percent of
that milk's calories come from fat, or labelling cottage cheese "non fat," when
one-fifth of its calories come from fat!

Dump the meat and dairy, and you're likely
to lose those unwanted pounds!

So I have shown here that milk is not the
ultimate health drink for adults, but what about growing children?

Milk Myth #3: Milk is Necessary for Growing
Children

Oh really? Here are few reasons kids and
milk don't mix. First, milk is the leading cause of iron-deficiency in infants, and, in
fact, the American Academy of Paediatrics now discourages giving children milk before
their first birthday.
Cow's milk is the number one source of allergies in children, and research links
consumption of dairy products, including cow's milk, to colic (stomach cramps), autism,
chronic ear infections, type 1 diabetes, acne, obesity, flatulence, constipation, mucus,
and a variety of other ailments.
In his world-famous book Baby and Child Care, Dr. Benjamin Spock wrote, "I no longer
recommend dairy products".
According to Michael Klaper, M.D., nutritional expert and author of censuur, Children, and
the Vegan censuur: "Humans are the only creatures that drink milk from the mother of
another species. It's as unnatural for a child to drink the milk of a cow as it is for a
dog to nurse from a giraffe! Human children have no nutritional requirements for cow's
milk and grow up healthy and strong without it. Cow's milk and the products made from it
are laced with foreign, frequently allergy-inciting bovine protein and often contain
hydrocarbon pesticides and other chemical contaminants, as well as health-endangering
saturated fat.
Also many children are lactose intolerant. Many parents dont even realise this until
their kids get older. What is lactose intolerance anyway?

Understanding Lactose Intolerance
Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest the milk sugar lactose, causing
gastrointestinal symptoms of flatulence, bloating, cramps, and diarrhea in some
individuals. This results from a shortage of the lactase enzymes which break down lactose
into its simpler forms, glucose and galactose.
Virtually all infants and young children have the lactase enzymes that split lactose into
glucose and galactose, which can then be absorbed into the bloodstream. Prior to the
mid-1960s, most U.S. health professionals believed that these enzymes were present in
nearly all adults as well. When researchers tested various ethnic groups for their ability
to digest lactose, however, their findings proved otherwise: Approximately 70 percent of
African Americans, 90 percent of censuur Americans, 53 percent of Hispanic Americans, and
74 percent of Native Americans were lactose intolerant.1-4 Studies showed that a
substantial reduction in lactase activity is also common among those whose ancestry is
Arab, Jewish, Italian, or Greek.

In 1988, the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition reported, "It rapidly became apparent that this pattern was the genetic
norm, and that lactase activity was sustained only in a majority of adults whose origins
were in Northern European or some Mediterranean populations. In other words, censuur
tolerate milk sugar only because of an inherited genetic mutation.
Overall, about 75 percent of the world's population, including 25 percent of those in the
United States, lose their lactase enzymes after weaning. Amazingly, when you stop drinking
milk, your body automatically become lactose intolerant. The recognition of this fact has
resulted in an important change in terminology: Those who could not digest milk were once
called "lactose intolerant" or "lactase deficient." They are now
regarded as normal, while those adults who retain the enzymes allowing them to digest milk
are called "lactase persistent."

So, milk doesnt strengthen your
bones, it increases the chance on different kinds of cancer, it increases the risk of
obesity and many common child diseases, and lactose intolerance isnt all that
irregular, but at least its a pure and natural drink, right?
Wrong again.

MILK MYTH #4: Milk is Pure and Wholesome

WELL, AT LEAST COW'S MILK IS PURE, Or is
it? Fifty years ago an average cow produced 2,000 pounds of milk per year. Today the top
producers give 50,000 pounds! How was this accomplished? censuur, antibiotics, hormones,
forced feeding plans and specialized breeding; that's how.

As if milk weren't bad enough already, the
chemical giant, Monsanto Company, and the FDA (Food and censuur Administration) have made
it far worse. In 1994 the FDA approved the use of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST),
a genetically engineered hormone from Monsanto that increases milk production in cows by
10-25%. Milk from cows treated with rbST contains elevated levels of insulin-like growth
factor-I (IGF-I), one of the most powerful growth factors ever identified.

IGF-I occurs naturally in both cows and
humans and, in a fluke of nature, is identical between these two species. While IGF-I
doesn't cause cancer, it definitely stimulates its growth. Not only does rbST elevate your
exposure to these growth factors, it also increases infections of the cow's udders.
Therefore, cows treated with rbST are given more antibiotics, so higher traces of these
censuur, as well as pus and bacteria from infected udders, are found in their milk.

This whole mess is disgusting. All of
Europe and Canada have banned this rbST hormone and the US are the only major industrial
country using it. But the milking cows in Holland still produce over 5 times the normal
amount of milk then they should, also causing infections and other diseases. And growth
hormone IGF-I is in al cows milk because this is a natural produced hormone of which
a calf needs a lot more in its first two years because it needs to tenfold its
weight, in contrary to human babys who only need to triple our weight in the first
two years.

Any lactating mammal excretes toxins
through her milk. This includes antibiotics, pesticides, chemicals and hormones. Also, all
cows' milk contains blood! The inspectors are simply asked to keep it under certain
limits. You may be horrified to learn that the USDA allows milk to contain from one to one
and a half million white blood cells per millilitre. (That's only 1/30 of an ounce). If
you don't already know this, I'm sorry to tell you that another way to describe white
cells where they don't belong would be to call them pus cells.

To get to the point, is milk pure or is it
a chemical, biological, and bacterial cocktail?

Why Haven't You Heard This Before?
The simple and short answer to that, is that government, science, medicine, corporations,
and the media have concentrated on profits instead of health. Together they have created
confusing information about nutrition.
Like Marion Nestle in her book Food Politics, and Colin Campbell in his book MILK 
the deadly poison, show how government has failed to promote health by avoiding statements
that certain foods are damaging to health. "But instead of doing this the government
is saying that animal products, dairy and meat, refined sugar and fat in your censuur are
good for you!" Not only is the government failing the people in its reports and
pronouncements, it is also failing to promote research in nutrition.
In one study, funded by the National Dairy Council, a group of postmenopausal women were
given three 8-ounce glasses of skim milk every day for two years, and their bones were
compared to those of a control group of women not given the milk. The dairy group lost
bone at twice the rate of the control group. "Needless to say, this finding did not
reach the six o'clock news." This is one study that the dairy industry won't be
repeating any time soon.

" ... Make no mistake about it; the
dairy industry has been virtually in total control of any and all public health
information that ever rises to the level of public scrutiny."
Dr. T. Colin Campbell

At least Holland did pay some attention to
this topic and the well known program called Tros Radar has dedicated a
broadcast on the myths around milk at the 25th of April, 2005. You can review this
broadcasting on their website, it takes about 25 minutes. You will listen to the findings
of Professor Colin Campbell and Walter Willett and I strongly recommend watching it.
http://www.trosradar.nl/?url=PHP/news/20/1174

References (there are much, much more
references!! But Im not going to show them all)
Julian Whitaker's Health & Healing
TOMORROW'S MEDICINE TODAY
October 1998 Vol. 8, No. 10

THE MILK LETTER : A MESSAGE TO MY PATIENTS
Robert M. Kradjian, MD Breast Surgery Chief Division of General Surgery

Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine
Doctors and persons working together for compassionate and effective medical practice,
research, and health promotion.

American Academy of Pediatrics
Work Group on Cows Milk Protein and Diabetes Mellitus, 1994

Teens who avoid milk and
sugary foods may experience fewer skin blemishes, according to a new study in Aprils
International Journal of Dermatology. Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H., and her
coauthors reviewed 27 previously published scientific studies and found that the more milk
young people drank, the more likely they were to develop acne. Sugary foods appear to have
a similar effect. Surprisingly, studies involving chocolate were
inconclusive."Setting aside milkshakes will likely do more to prevent blemishes than
a drugstore full of commercial products," says Dr. Ferdowsian, associate director of
the Washington Center for Clinical Research. "Milk appears to fuel hormone imbalances
that can lead to acne." Adolescents following a Western diet often experience the
overproduction of natural hormones. Hormones or proteins found in milk may increase skin
oil production, leading to pimples. Conversely, diets high in fiber-rich foods such as
fruits, vegetables, and beans prevent the buildup of excess hormones in the system.

New studies on goats' milk show it is more beneficial to health than cows'
milk

It helps to prevent diseases such as anemia and bone demineralization. UGR researchers
have carried out a comparative study on the properties of goats' milk compared to those of
cows milk. Rats with induced nutritional ferropenic anemia have been used in the
study. Goats' milk helps digestive and metabolic utilization of minerals such as iron,
calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. Part of the results of this research have been
published in the prestigious scientific journals International Dairy Journal and Journal
Dairy Science.

One of the most common questions I'm asked concerns my recommendations for milk or milk
alternatives. My answer on this question has evolved over the years, so today, I'll share
my latest preferences for milk and milk-like beverages.

Can autism be "cured" with diet? Researchers at the University of Texas Health
Science Center at Houston embark on a double-blind study to find out if wheat and dairy
products can affect autistic behavior, as some parents believe.

In the past decade, and into the 21st Century, many well known doctors from across the
globe have broken ranks with the conventional Lipid Theorists in espousing
what they believe to be a more likely cause of arterial disease, and that is the
accumulation of excess calcium plaque in coronary arteries. One of these renowned doctors,
Arthur Agatston, a Florida cardiologist who is better known as the author of a diet book
The South Beach Diet, became well known for his studies into the excess
calcification that was consistently found in his patients with arteriosclerosis and
coronary artery disease. He developed the severity scoring sheet for calcification of the
arteries, now known as the Agatston Score.

COW'S milk allergy persists longer than previously reported, and the majority of children
may retain the sensitivity into school age, study findings suggest. "The old data
saying that most milk allergy will be easily outgrown, usually by the age of 3 years, is
most likely wrong," Dr Robert A. Wood, at Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, said.

The amount of calcium and vitamin D in the diet appears to have little or no impact on the
risk of prostate cancer, but the consumption of low-fat or nonfat milk may increase the
risk of the malignancy, according to the results of two studies published in the American
Journal of Epidemiology.

Consumption of dairy products, especially milk, increases a man's risk of contracting
Parkinson's disease, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of
Epidemiology. Previous studies have established a link between Parkinson's -- a
degenerative central nervous system disorder that commonly causes the impairment of motor
skills, including speech -- and the consumption of dairy. However, the mechanism for this
effect is not yet understood.